Standardization of autoimmune diagnostics in Germany: Activities of the German group in the European autoimmune standardization initiative

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1109, Issue , 2007, Pages 31-36

  Sack, Ulrich ^a,h   Conrad, Karsten ^b   Csernok, Elena ^c   Frank, Ingrid ^d   Haass, Michael ^e   Krieger, Thorsten ^f   Seyfarth, Michael ^c   Schlosser, Udo ^e   Schmidt, Reinhold E ^g   Witte, Torsten ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^d Labor Dr Tiller   (Germany)

^e Thermo Fisher Scientific   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^g HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; Guidelines; Laboratory diagnostics; Standardization

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY DETECTION; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEP 2 CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; STANDARDIZATION; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLOOD BANK; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; GERMANY; IMMUNOLOGY; STANDARD;

ANTIBODY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCING ADAPTOR PROTEIN;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ALGORITHMS; ANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BLOOD BANKS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; GERMANY; HUMANS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 34848890985     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1398.004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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